Re: Are All Alternative Health Practitioners This Way???? [OFF-TOPIC]

[Guest guest]

I adore the doctor my husband has been using, and I haven't even met the

man. He emails both of us asking how it is going, if we have questions, is

there anything he can do..... He returns phone calls, but usually, it

isn't necessary, because he'll interrupt what he's doing to talk with us.

He's young. I'm thinking maybe when he's got a few years on him, he'll be a

little more jaded?? But I sure hope not. He doesn't pretend to have

answers, but is willing to research. And he's been absolutely wonderful

accepting some research I've found. I have a feeling he doesn't represent

the majority, and as much as I'm less-than-thrilled about moving to MT, I

have been so impressed with this doctor, that moving would be worth it, just

to have him as our family doctor. I would find another one, , if I

were you.............ESPECIALLY given you clearly communicate a problem with

the supps she'd given you.

Sharon

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Seay <entheogens@...> wrote:

> Two weeks, I emailed my doctor, a D.O., about a problem I was having

> with one of the supplements she had given me. After three days, I still

> hadn't received a response, so I wrote again. The weekend came and went

> without a response. Finally, I telephoned her office and asked to speak to

> her. I told her the problem and asked if there was anything I could replace

> it with. This took all of 5 minutes and it could have even taken up less of

> her time if she had just responded to my email.

>

> This morning I get a bill from her office for $50!

>

> Although I am thankful for this person for diagnosing my Lyme disease (I am

> seeing a specialist about this now), I feel like she is a leech for money.

> What do you think? Do you think I should ditch her or what? Are most

> Alternative doctors this way? My experience so far has been that they will

> clean your pocketbook even faster than mainstream doctors.

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[Guest guest]

Chris-

> I'm not entirely convinced this thread is off-topic

Given that it's health-related, it's definitely not.

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[Guest guest]

I'm very happy with my doctor, after years of bad experiences. I have

diabetes, so I need an MD to prescribe insulin. I found a

naturopathic physician who also practices homeopathy -- but he started

out in mainstream medicine, so he is an MD and can prescribe my

insulin. He is also a chapter leader of WAPF, so he's been just the

right doctor for me!

AnnB.

>

> > Two weeks, I emailed my doctor, a D.O., about a problem I was having

> > with one of the supplements she had given me. After three days, I

still

> > hadn't received a response, so I wrote again. The weekend came and

went

> > without a response. Finally, I telephoned her office and asked to

speak to

> > her. I told her the problem and asked if there was anything I

could replace

> > it with. This took all of 5 minutes and it could have even taken

up less of

> > her time if she had just responded to my email.

> >

> > This morning I get a bill from her office for $50!

> >

> > Although I am thankful for this person for diagnosing my Lyme

disease (I am

> > seeing a specialist about this now), I feel like she is a leech

for money.

> > What do you think? Do you think I should ditch her or what? Are most

> > Alternative doctors this way? My experience so far has been that

they will

> > clean your pocketbook even faster than mainstream doctors.

> >

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>

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>

> --

> Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to

> conscience, above all liberties. - Milton, Areopagitica

> Deut 11:15 He will put grass in the fields for your cattle, and you will

> have plenty to eat.

> Check out my blog - www.ericsons.net - Food for the Body and Soul

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

, I have had much more experiences like yours with alternative

doctors than regular ones. As a matter of fact from a personality

viewpoint, I loved my allopathic doctors so much more and had good

relationships with them. They were so much cooler about things, too

bad they didn't practice preventitive medicine.

It's almost seems, with a lot of alternative doctors (m.d.s,

dentists) like they are trying to prove something by charging so much

more when many don't even take insurance, and most made me noticeably

worse b/c they don't seem to listen any better than when they were in

their allopathic days. I think I had some karmic (meaining life

lessons) things to learn about with trusting my instinct for which I

had to go through some doosies so of course, everyone will have

different experiences but there is a lot of greed and oppressive

behavior out there imho. I wish more would use their position of

esteem in the community to make more noise to get equal healthcare

for everyone not just the wealthy. By not taking insurance I think

they stay off the radar so it's not really making a dent in things.

Luckily a lot of chiropractors have been good at this and most

insurance companies cover chiropractic.

Back to our situation, I wouldn't pay it. It's not industry standard.

If a doctor prescribes you a medicine and you have a question, they

will answer it on the phone without charging you. My mom calls her

doctor all the time and the doctor returns it everytime no problem.

One time I went to a well known adrenal doctor in D.C. and he talked

the entire time about traveling Italy and all these other stories. He

didn't even take the time to look at my history. He rushed through a

cranial adjustment and then his office charged me for his going over.

That took the biggest cajones in the world. It was #1 his fault and

#2 if they TOLD me they were going to CHARGE me, you can bet your

booty I would have been the one to set a timer. I talked to him about

it and he made it up to me, so maybe you should do the same with your

doctor. Then the same thing happened to me with follow up question

with this same doctor and they billed me again and I said forget this

and I didn't pay it and never used him again. So my 2 cents is talk

to her and give her a chance and then go from there. If you really

need this doctor for something unique that she does that you can't

get anywhere else, it may not worth risking burning a bridge. Either

way bring it up to her. Most people stay quiet and therefore they

keep doing this crap.

--- In , Seay <entheogens@...>

wrote:

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> Two weeks, I emailed my doctor, a D.O., about a problem I was

having with one of the supplements she had given me. After three

days, I still hadn't received a response, so I wrote again. The

weekend came and went without a response. Finally, I telephoned her

office and asked to speak to her. I told her the problem and asked

if there was anything I could replace it with. This took all of 5

minutes and it could have even taken up less of her time if she had

just responded to my email.

>

> This morning I get a bill from her office for $50!

>

> Although I am thankful for this person for diagnosing my Lyme

disease (I am seeing a specialist about this now), I feel like she is

a leech for money.

> What do you think? Do you think I should ditch her or what? Are

most Alternative doctors this way? My experience so far has been

that they will clean your pocketbook even faster than mainstream

doctors.

>

> -

>

[Guest guest]

>

> It's almost seems, with a lot of alternative doctors

> (m.d.s,

> dentists) like they are trying to prove something by

> charging so much

> more

It was funny. The last time I had an appointment with this woman, I was talking

to her about how I had previously had 5 rounds of DMPS IV for mercury chelation.

She said, " Oh, that must have been expensive! " . It occurred to me to tell her

that a DMPS IV session was much cheaper than coming to see her, but I held my

tongue.

I am pretty pissed off about it. I have an appointment with her next Wednesday.

I will go. I may or may not raise the issue about the $50 fee for the short

telephone chat. I am seriously considering not returning to her after that.

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[Guest guest]

>

> It's almost seems, with a lot of alternative doctors

> (m.d.s,

> dentists) like they are trying to prove something by

> charging so much

> more

It was funny. The last time I had an appointment with this woman, I was talking

to her about how I had previously had 5 rounds of DMPS IV for mercury chelation.

She said, " Oh, that must have been expensive! " . It occurred to me to tell her

that a DMPS IV session was much cheaper than coming to see her, but I held my

tongue.

I am pretty pissed off about it. I have an appointment with her next Wednesday.

I will go. I may or may not raise the issue about the $50 fee for the short

telephone chat. I am seriously considering not returning to her after that.

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[Guest guest]

To make matters worse, I find the majority of doctors end up learning

a bunch from us weston pricers and we don't charge them for it!

>

> >

> > It's almost seems, with a lot of alternative doctors

> > (m.d.s,

> > dentists) like they are trying to prove something by

> > charging so much

> > more

>

> It was funny. The last time I had an appointment with this woman,

I was talking to her about how I had previously had 5 rounds of DMPS

IV for mercury chelation. She said, " Oh, that must have been

expensive! " . It occurred to me to tell her that a DMPS IV session

was much cheaper than coming to see her, but I held my tongue.

>

> I am pretty pissed off about it. I have an appointment with her

next Wednesday. I will go. I may or may not raise the issue about

the $50 fee for the short telephone chat. I am seriously considering

not returning to her after that.

>

> -

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